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Lawyers for Blue Jays bopper Edwin Encarnacion say an $11.5-million civil suit filed against him in New York is a swing and miss, and should be ejected from the legal ballpark.

In documents filed this week, his lawyers say there’s absolutely no grounds for a New York court to hear the allegations from Ashley Lebron, a family friend who says Encarnacion gave her genital herpes and chlamydia when they had consensual, unprotected sex on three occasions in the Dominican Republic in February this year.

Among the arguments lawyers Bob Lanza and Richard Ebeling make in calling for dismissal is the fact the alleged misconduct occurred in the Dominican, not New York, where Lebron, 24, lives, and that she can’t prove Encarnacion was aware he had the alleged diseases.

Lebron’s claim alleging battery “fails because New York law does not recognize informed consent in connection with battery claims outside ... of medical malpractice,” Lanza argued. Lebron would have to prove the sex was nonconsensual, but she admitted the sex was consensual in her lawsuit, Lanza said.

She attempted to erase the consent by “saying she didn’t give ‘informed’ consent” — that she wasn’t warned of Encarnacion’s alleged condition, stated Lanza.

Encarnacion, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, only comes to New York “a handful of days a year” when his club plays the Mets or Yankees, according to his lawyers. They assert the only reason this lawsuit is being launched in New York is that she lives there.

According to the lawsuit, when she confronted him, Encarnacion insisted he didn’t “give her anything,” and she might have picked up the virus when they went four-wheeling or swimming in a river.

He claimed he only had sexual relations with one other woman and hadn’t had any sex for at least a month before sleeping with her.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

CASE COULD BE FILED IN D.R.

Ashley Lebron’s lawsuit against Edwin Encarnacion could be pursued in his native Dominican Republic if her New York lawsuit is dismissed, court documents allege.

If the New York case is turfed, Lebron could launch a lawsuit in the Caribbean country immediately.

A long-time Dominican lawyer, Jose Benjamin Rodriguez Carpio, stated in a declaration filed in New York that “Dominican courts are empowered to assess monetary damages for wrongs committed against plaintiffs.

“In my opinion, if the plaintiff is able to prove that she was damaged through the wrongful acts of the defendant, the courts are authorized to award her appropriate monetary damages.”

Encarnacion, 33, a superstar first baseman/DH in the final year of his contract with the Blue Jays, will be a free agent at the end of this season and is expected to field massive contract offers that will pay him far more than the $10 million he made in 2016.

That means Encarnacion will still be playing and making substantially more than his current salary if any trial were to occur.